""I'm a creature of nepotism," Adler told TheaterMania in 2015. "I got my first job when I was at Syracuse University and my father, the general manager of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, called me (because) there was an opening for an assistant stage manager. I skipped school.""
""I was really getting into the twilight of a mediocre career," he told The New York Times in 1992."
Jerry Adler died at 96, according to a brief family announcement confirmed by the Riverside Memorial Chapel in New York. Adler worked behind the scenes on 53 Broadway productions as a stage manager, producer and director before transitioning to acting in his 60s. His television credits included The Sopranos, where he played Hesh Rabkin across all six seasons, and The Good Wife as Howard Lyman. He came from a family rooted in Jewish and Yiddish theater; his father Philip Adler was a Broadway general manager and his cousin Stella Adler was a noted acting teacher. Adler left Broadway during the 1980s slump and moved to California, where he worked on television including the soap opera Santa Barbara.
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